My mother was a good recreational cook, but what she basically believed about cooking was that if you worked hard and prospered, someone else would do it for you.

It's much easier to get over someone if you can delude yourself into thinking you never really cared that much.

That's your problem! You don't want to be in love. You want to be in love in a movie.

Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

I try to write parts for women that are as complicated and interesting as women actually are.

You enter into a certain amount of madness when you marry a person with pets.

There are plenty of men who philander during the summer, to be sure, but they are usually the same lot who philander during the winter - albeit with less convenience.